Shit-scared of the great unknown

I was just like everybody else: shit-scared of the great unknown. 

Desperate to take a little piece of home with me.

The Beach (2000), Danny Boyle

“There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist... If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant to use as a comparison then nothing seems strange.”

-

“When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.”

Alex Garland, The Beach

They say if you slow your breathing, time slows down

“The smoke comes out the daddy's cigarette but it never goes back.
We can't turn back time, that's why it is so hard to decide.
We have to make the right choice.
Until we don't choose everything remains possible.”

Mr Nobody (2009), Jaco Van Dormael

Good vs Evil

“I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?” 

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

 

East of Eden (1955), Elia Kazan

What can you do when you have to be a man?

James Dean est mort à 24 ans dans un accident de voiture

Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Nicholas Ray

JIM

What can you do when you have to be a man?

FATHER

Well, now--

JIM

Just give me a direct answer!

(pause)

You going to stop me from going, Dad?

FATHER

You know I never stop you from

anything. Believe me--you're at a

wonderful age. In ten years you'll

look back on this and wish you were

a kid again.

JIM

Ten years? Now, Dad--I need an answer now!

What a glorious feeling

Singin' in the rain (1952), Gene Kelly

Do androids dream of electric sheep?

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe, Hmm.  

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. 

I watch C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. 

All ...those moments will be lost, in time, like tears...in...rain. Time...to die."

Blade Runner (1982), Ridley Scott

Damn! We're in a tight spot!

O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000), Joel & Ethan Coen

Everett: Hit by a train! Truth means nothing to a woman, Delmar. Triumph 'a the subjective. You ever been with a woman?

Delmar: Well, I... I... I gotta get the family farm back before I can start thinking about that.

Everett: That's right, if then. Believe me Delmar, woman is the most fiendish instrument of torture ever devised to bedevil the days of man.

Soggy Bottom Boys - Man of constant sorrow

No sympathy for the Devil

“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.” 

Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Chapter 9

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), Terry Gilliam

Movie Soundtrack (compilation)

Rosebud

Citizen Kane (1941), Orson Welles

Reporter: If you could've found out what Rosebud meant, I bet that would've explained everything.

Thompson: No, I don't think so; no. Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get, or something he lost. Anyway, it wouldn't have explained anything... I don't think any word can explain a man's life. No, I guess Rosebud is just a... piece in a jigsaw puzzle... a missing piece.

On the part of luck there is in life

The man who said "I'd rather be lucky than good" saw deeply into life.
People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck.
It's scary to think so much is out of one's control.
There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net,
and for a split second, it can either go forward or fall back.
With a little luck, it goes forward, and you win.
Or maybe it doesn't, and you lose.

Match Point (2005), Woody Allen

Dystopia is the shit

“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?” 

Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange (1971), Stanley Kubrick

Main theme (From Henry Purcell's Funeral of Queen Mary)

I don't want to die without a few scars

"It's only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, "that you're free to do anything"

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 8

"I just don't want to die without a few scars"
-
"At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe 
we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves"

Ibid., Chapter 6

Fight Club (1999), David Fincher

Pixies - Where is my mind

The paradox of choice

The imaginarium of Dr Parnassus (2009), Terry Gilliam

                         TONY
               You must make a choice...and...
               actually, to be honest, I'd
               strongly recommend this one.

                         LOUIS VUITTON WOMAN
               But... Rudolph Valentino, James
               Dean, Princess Di?... all these
               people... they're dead.

                         TONY
               Exactly. To be reborn, first you
               must die. All of them have achieved
               a kind of immortality. And we love
               them all the more for it. They
               won't get old or fat. They won't
               get sick or feeble. They are beyond
               fear. They are forever young. They
               are gods. And you can join them.

                         LOUIS VUITTON WOMAN
                   (softening)
               You're such a wonderful speaker.

Soundtrack - Parnassus Alone